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Hello! I have been having issues with my family. The past year I have supported myself (no help at all by my parents), I moved out 8 months ago. Am i a independent?
I made over 4050$ in 2017 and I claimed myself because i pay for all my support and have not lived with my parents for 8 months. I am worried they will be able to claim me because of falisfied information, If there is anyone I could speak to would be awesome. Or could give me information on what will happen!
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Hello! I have been having issues with my family. The past year I have supported myself (no help at all by my parents), I moved out 8 months ago. Am i a independent?
You are not independent. Your parents can still claim you as a dependent because you are under age 19 and lived with them most of the year. Your income is not relevant and support is essentially not relevant
There
are two types of dependents, "Qualifying Children"(QC) and standard
("Qualifying Relative" in IRS parlance even though they don't have to
actually be related). There is no income limit for a QC but there is an age
limit, a relationship test and residence test. Only a QC qualifies a taxpayer
for the Earned Income Credit .
You are a QC.
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Hello! I have been having issues with my family. The past year I have supported myself (no help at all by my parents), I moved out 8 months ago. Am i a independent?
You are not independent. Your parents can still claim you as a dependent because you are under age 19 and lived with them most of the year. Your income is not relevant and support is essentially not relevant
There
are two types of dependents, "Qualifying Children"(QC) and standard
("Qualifying Relative" in IRS parlance even though they don't have to
actually be related). There is no income limit for a QC but there is an age
limit, a relationship test and residence test. Only a QC qualifies a taxpayer
for the Earned Income Credit .
You are a QC.
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Hello! I have been having issues with my family. The past year I have supported myself (no help at all by my parents), I moved out 8 months ago. Am i a independent?
To be a Qualifying Child, the child must not have provided more than half of his or her own support for the entire year (regardless of who did provide the support). Support includes food, actual or fair rental value of housing, clothing, transportation, medical expenses, etc.
But Hal Al is correct...you are not independent for 2017.
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Hello! I have been having issues with my family. The past year I have supported myself (no help at all by my parents), I moved out 8 months ago. Am i a independent?
To start, if you moved out 8 months ago, that would have been in August, right? So you lived at home for more than half of 2017.
As to support, your parents provided you with housing, utilities, food, etc. for more than half of the year as well. So it sounds they CAN claim you under the IRS rules.
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